Robert Colescott

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Robert Colescott (Robert H. Colescott, born in Oakland, California, 1925) is an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African-American. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris. According to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Colescott was "the first African-American artist to represent the United States in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 1997." [1] According to Askart.com and Artcyclopedia.com, his work is in many major public collections, including (in addition to the Albright-Knox) those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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  • Robert Colescott; Miriam Roberts; Site Santa Fe (Gallery); University of Arizona. Museum of Art. Robert Colescott : recent painting [2] (Miriam Roberts, 1997) ISBN 189180006X
  • U.S. Centre culturel américain, Paris. Trois américains : Art Brenner, Robert Colescott, Elaine Hamilton.- Exposition à Paris, Centre culturel américain, 26 février-26 mars 1969 [3] [exhibition catalogue in French] (Paris, Centre culturel américain, 1969) OCLC 38695859

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